Last Saturday, I had the opportunity to take part to one of the events organised in Italy for the Document Freedom Day. The event was organised by FSUGItalia, and FSFE participated as host. Carlo Piana awarded the City administration of Arezzo for adopting Open Standards within its services. The event took place in the building Read more »
What is DRM? A Digital Restrictions Management system is a technology built into an electronic product or service with the aim of limiting its range of possible uses after purchase. It is designed to limit users’ behaviour considered as inconsistent with vendors’ agenda. DRMs restrict people from perfectly legal behaviours, like putting together a music Read more »
These days, I am working extensively on updating the Booth procedures, in order to make things easier for anyone who wishes to set up a FSFE booth in town, spreading the voice about Free Software and FSFE mission and work. Your comments and feedback are very welcome. Do you have experience in organising booths? Did Read more »
My next challenge is the one to re-organise and restructure a bit the procedures for setting up a FSFE booth. Basically our Booth page will be improved, and new material (posters…leaflets…) will be made available soon. I started today this new project, whose main purpose is: making life easier for volunteers who wish to organise Read more »
YacY is the brand new search engine, based on a peer-to-peer technology instead of a centralised one (see our press release here). Probably one of its best features is the flexibility, as the results of the research is not defined by a central authority, but by the community as a whole. Personally, I also like Read more »
Hi all! 3 months passed since my internship at FSFE started and it was really time to create a blog. There are already many of them, but one more cannot do harm to free software! Since I’m having a good good time at FSFE, I thought it would be nice to share with the community Read more »